Quick Text Highlighter

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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• Jun 1, 2026
  description

  Boost your reading efficiency and vocabulary tracking with high-performance text highlighting.
  
  This extension automatically finds and highlights your defined list of words on every web page you visit. Whether you are learning a new language, researching specific topics, or simply need to track keywords, this tool makes them stand out instantly.
  
  # Key Features
  
  🖱️ Easy Highlight Word List Management:
  - Add: Select any text on a web page, the tooltip appears, then click "Add" to add the word to the highlight list or "Replace" to replace the entire list with the selected text
  - Remove: Select an already highlighted word and press the "Remove" button.
  
  🔍️ Auto-highlight Searched Queries in search engines: Automatically detects keywords from search engine URLs (Google, YouTube, Yahoo, TikTok, X) and add the query to highlight word list and highlights them instantly.
  
  🛠️ Floating Tooltip: The action tooltip appears near your selection. You can drag and drop it to a preferred position, and it remembers where you left it.
  
  🚫 Smart Exclusions:
  - URL Exclusion: Prevent highlighting on specific websites.
  - Word Exclusion: Define specific words to ignore, even if they match the word in the highlight word list.
  
  📋 Clipboard Integration: Use keyboard shortcuts to replace or add words directly from your clipboard content.
  
  🔄 Sync Support: Your word lists and settings are saved via Chrome Storage Sync, keeping your data consistent across all your devices.
  
   🔦ON/OFF Toggle: Quickly enable or disable highlighting with a single click via drop-down menu or keyboard shortcut and the status is shown on  the badge of the extension icon.
  
  
  
  # How to Use
  
  - Highlighting Words: Simply select text on any webpage. A tooltip will appear. Click "Add" to start highlighting that word everywhere.
  - Removing Words: Select a word that is currently highlighted. The tooltip will show a  "Remove" button. Click it to stop highlighting that word.
  - Managing Lists: Click the extension icon to open the popup. Here you can manually edit your Highlight Word List, manage Excluded URLs, and toggle the extension ON/OFF.
  Moving the Tooltip: If the tooltip is in your way, simply drag it to a new location.
  - Clipboard: You can add or replace words to highlight from text in the clipboard using keyboard shortcuts 
  - Switch On/Off: You can toggle highlighing using keyboard shortcus or drop-down menu.
  
  # Privacy 
  
  This extension processes text locally within your browser to apply highlights. Your browsing data is not sent to any external servers.

  Boost your reading efficiency and vocabulary tracking with high-performance text highlighting.
  
  This extension automatically finds and highlights your defined list of words on every web page you visit. Whether you are learning a new language, researching specific topics, or simply need to track keywords, this tool makes them stand out instantly.
  
  Key Features
  🖱️ Easy Highlight Word List Management:
  
  Add: Select any text on a web page, the tooltip appears, then click "Add" to add the word to the highlight list or "Replace" to replace the entire list with the selected text
  Remove: Select an already highlighted word and press the "Remove" button.
  
  📊 Highlight Navigation Panel (NEW):
  A customizable on-screen panel displaying all your current words.
  
  Quick Navigation: Click any word in the panel to instantly scroll to its highlighted location on the page.
  View & Sort: See all active words at a glance. Sort them by Oldest, Newest, Frequency (Count), or A-Z.
  Flexible Layout: Choose between a floating, draggable window or embed the panel directly into the page edges (Top, Bottom, Left, Right) so it never blocks your content.
  Smart Memory: Panel layout, position, and sort settings can be saved per website or applied globally as your default via the popup.
  
  🔍️ Auto-highlight Searched Queries in search engines: Automatically detects keywords from search engine URLs (Google, YouTube, Yahoo, TikTok, X) and add the query to highlight word list and highlights them instantly.
  
  🛠️ Floating Tooltip: The action tooltip appears near your selection. You can drag and drop it to a preferred position, and it remembers where you left it.
  
  🚫 Smart Exclusions:
  
  URL Exclusion: Prevent highlighting on specific websites.
  Word Exclusion: Define specific words to ignore, even if they match the word in the highlight word list.
  📋 Clipboard Integration: Use keyboard shortcuts to replace or add words directly from your clipboard content.
  
  🔄 Sync Support: Your word lists and settings are saved via Chrome Storage Sync, keeping your data consistent across all your devices.
  
  🔦 ON/OFF Toggle: Quickly enable or disable highlighting with a single click via drop-down menu or keyboard shortcut and the status is shown on the badge of the extension icon.
  
  How to Use
  Highlighting Words: Simply select text on any webpage. A tooltip will appear. Click "Add" to start highlighting that word everywhere.
  Removing Words: Select a word that is currently highlighted. The tooltip will show a "Remove" button. Click it to stop highlighting that word.
  Using the Navigation Panel: Use the on-screen panel to navigate to highlighted words quickly. Click the gear icon to change its sorting mode, switch to embedded layouts, or minimize it.
  Managing Lists: Click the extension icon to open the popup. Here you can manually edit your Highlight Word List, manage Excluded URLs, set the global default panel layout, and toggle the extension ON/OFF.
  Moving the Tooltip: If the tooltip is in your way, simply drag it to a new location.
  Clipboard: You can add or replace words to highlight from text in the clipboard using keyboard shortcuts.
  Switch On/Off: You can toggle highlighting using keyboard shortcuts or drop-down menu.
  Privacy
  This extension processes text locally within your browser to apply highlights. Your browsing data is not sent to any external servers.

• Jun 1, 2026
  permissions

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  storage, activeTab, offscreen, clipboardRead

• Jun 1, 2026
  short_description

  Highlight text quickly

  highlight text quickly

Permissions & access

Permissions

storageactiveTaboffscreenclipboardRead

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